Author: Rebecca Macmillan
If your business sponsors overseas workers, or may need to sponsor overseas workers in the future, you need to understand the new labour market testing requirement.
如果您的企业需担保海外员工，或者将来需担保海外员工，您需要了解劳动市场测试的新规定。
Labour market testing is a type of application criteria which means, you must satisfy the minimum requirements before submitting the employer nomination application. Failure to satisfy these minimum requirements will cause delays and can become a problem in circumstances where your business has an urgent role to fill, or you are wanting to nominate an overseas worker with an upcoming visa expiry.
劳动市场测试是申请条件之一，即在递交雇主提名申请前必须满足的最低要求。未能满足这些最低要求将耽误进程，而您的企业如急需填补空缺职位或提名一名签证即将过期的员工的话，这就会带来问题。
Period in which Labour Market Testing must have been completed
劳动市场测试的完成期限
Until 18 June 2018, the period in which labour market testing is required to be undertaken is 12 months immediately before the nomination is lodged.
在2018年6月18日以前，劳动市场测试的完成期限为提交提名的前12个月。
From 18 June 2018, the period in which labour market testing is required to be undertaken is six months immediately before the nomination is lodged.
自2018年6月18日，劳动市场测试的完成期限将为提交提名前的6个月。
These periods do not apply if there have been redundancies or retrenchments for the same or similar occupations in the four months immediately before the nomination is lodged in which case, the labour market testing must have been undertaken after the date of the redundancies or retrenchments.
如果提名提交的前四个月内同样的或者类似的职位裁减过人员，则该期限不适用。劳动市场测试必须在人员裁减后的期限内进行。
How long your advertisement must run
招聘广告时间需要多长
You must advertise the position for a minimum of 21 days for online advertisements, and for print advertisements, applications must be open for at least 21 days.
网上广告时间最少为21天，平面广告的申请开放时间至少为21天。
Minimum advertising requirements
最低广告要求
This is the important part.
这是最关键的部分。
Your job advertisement must be written in English and contain the following information:
招聘广告必须使用英语并包含以下信息：
· the title, or a description, of the position
· 职位的名称或描述
· the name of the approved sponsor or the name of the recruitment agency being used by the sponsor and
· 受许可的担保人的姓名或该担保人使用的招聘代理的名称
· the annual earnings for the position (unless the annual earnings will be greater than the Fair Work High Income Threshold, of AUD $142,000)
· 职位的年收入（除非该年收入水平高于“公平工作高收入界限”，即$142,000澳元）
You must advertise the job advertisement in at least two publications which include:
广告必须在以下至少两处发表平台中发表：
· on a national recruitment website (e.g. jobactive.gov.au, seek)
· 全国性的招聘网站（如jobactive.gov.au，seek）
· A recruitment website ‘with a national reach’
· “全国范围内可浏览”的招聘网站
· in national print media
· 全国性的平面媒体
· on national radio
· 全国性的广播
· if the sponsor is accredited – on the business website.
· 商务网站（如果担保人受认证）
Advertising on a general classifieds website or an advertisement solely through a social media notification, such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram will not be accepted.
在一般性的分类广告网站广告或者只通过社交媒体通知，如脸书、推特、照片墙，将不被接受。
Exemptions
豁免
Exemptions to the labour market testing requirement are limited to situations where an international trade obligation applies. For example, an exemption applies to an employee who is transferring from a company in Japan to work for the same company or an associated entity of that company in Australia.
劳动市场测试要求的豁免只限于国际贸易义务的要求。例如，一名员工从日本的一家公司调动到澳大利亚的同一家公司或其相关实体工作则属于特殊情况。
Exemptions may also be available where a new nomination application needs to be submitted because of a change of business structure or reduction in salary for the position.
如果因为企业结构调整或职位薪资降低而需要提交新的提名申请，也将得到豁免。
No exemption is available for repeat visas as it is expected you will test the local labour market before re-engaging a 457/Temporary Skill Shortage visa holder.
重复申请签证均无法得到豁免，因为企业在重新聘用457签证或临时技术短缺签证持有人之前有必要进行当地劳动市场测试。
Evidence for nomination applications
提名申请的证据
You must provide the following with every nomination application that requires labour market testing:
企业在提交所有需要劳动市场测试的提名申请时都必须提交以下材料：
· a copy of the job advertisements
· 招聘广告副本
· a copy of any tax invoice or receipt for payment of the job advertisements
· 支付招聘广告费用的发票或收据的副本
· a summary of your recruitment efforts – eg. how many people applied, how many were interviewed, how many were offered a position, and main reasons applicants were unsuccessful
· 招聘工作小结——如申请人数、面试人数、获得职位的人数，以及未能成功的申请人失败的原因
We understand that when advertising job vacancies most businesses have not considered sponsoring an overseas worker until that stand out overseas worker’s application is sitting on your desk. By following the above guidelines for all job advertisements you will ensure you have no difficulty satisfying the labour market testing requirement if needed.
我们理解在广告职务空缺时大部分企业并未考虑过担保海外员工，直到一名杰出海外员工的申请被摆到您的办公桌上。遵守相关原则，确保您符合劳动市场测试的要求不是一件特别难的事。
Author: Rebecca Macmillan
Contacts:
Brisbane
Rachel Drew, Partner
T: +61 7 3135 0617
E: rachel.drew@holdingredlich.com
Cairns
Rebecca Macmillan, Registered Migration Agent
T: 07 3135 0535
E: rebecca.macmillan@holdingredlich.com
Sydney
Natalia Arens, Registered Migration Agent
T: +61 2 8083 0451+61 7 3135 0637
E: natalia.arens@holdingredlich.com
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